The #1 New York Occasions bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize-the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly-Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a wintertime time in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers-bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio-changed history. Nonetheless it would take the world some time to trust that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine holding a pilot.

Orville and approximately The Wright Brothers Wilbur Wright were males of excellent courage and dedication, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless interest. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville acquired such mechanised ingenuity as few experienced ever seen. That they had only a public high school education and little money never halted them within their mission to try the air. Nothing at all did, not even the self-evident reality that every period they took off, they risked getting killed.

With this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), grasp historian David McCullough “shows as nothing you’ve seen prior how two Ohio guys from an extraordinary family taught the globe to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of the actual Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the considerable Wright family documents to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom issues might well have got gone differently on their behalf. Essential reading, this is “a tale of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what may be the most amazing feat mankind has ever achieved…The Wright Brothers soars” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Reserve Review).